beaker
Object NameBeaker
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1100-1199
Place MadePersia, Gorgan
TechniqueBlown, applied
SizeOverall H: 11.9 cm; Rim Diam: 8.5 cm
Accession Number79.1.47
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless glass but with greenish tinge yellowish green streamers, also small bubbles and some stones; blown, applied. Beaker shaped like truncated cone. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall straight and tapering; foot consists of very shallow hollow cone, which projects beyond bottom of wall and has rounded edge; floor has corresponding dome; pontil mark annular (D. 1.6-1.7 cm). Decoration, on wall, consists of single register bordered at top and bottom by thin horizontal trails; trail at top is 4.3-4.5 cm below lip and was wound almost twice around circumference; trail at bottom is 3.2 cm above edge of foot and was wound once. Register contains three staggered horizontal rows of small, snail-like prunts; each row has 12 prunts.Provenance
Source
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978) - 1979
